Getting to the 21st Century @ Bishop Chatard High School

This wiki is the result of insights gained at the 2011 Indiana Computer Educators (ICE) Conference. The conference was held on October 13 and October 14 at the Marritott East Hotel. The intent of the wiki is to provide faculty members at Bishop Chatard High School some resources and ideas for how they can incorporate technology into their classrooms, with the intent of enhancing the educational exerience.

Setting the Stage

A thought provoking video about teaching and education in the 21st century


Key Takeaway from ICE 2011

A key takeaway for me from the conference is that there are a multitidue of web-based resources available (many of which are absolutely FREE) that can help an educator enhance their instruction and encourage student engagement...the educator must only be willing to experiment and try different things.

Example Resources

Following are some of the resources that I came across while attending ICE 2011...

A definition for curating - Arranging chosen pieces of information into an order and structuring compelling questions around them.

Evernote

An online "notebook" where information can be captured and "tagged" - http://www.evernote.com/

Zoho

An online... http://www.zoho.com

Thursday Luncheon Keynote Speaker Notes - Tom Daccord

Thursday's keynote speaker was Tom Daccord, Co-Director of edtechteacher...the following is a link to the presentation he gave.
http://edtechteacher.org/images/PDFs/ice.pdf

Not Another Paper! - Alternative Projects Using Social Media

Following are notes from a workshop that Tom Daccord did to generate ideas about using social media instead of assigning the traditional paper
http://edtechteacher.org/images/PDFs/notanotherpaper-ice.pdf

EdTechTeacher.org

Teaching with Technology resources. Also, go to the bottom of the page and sign up for the monthly resources
http://www.edtechteacher.org/

ISSUU

Publish any PDF document in a "book reader" format
http://issuu.com/